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www.apolloguide.com - : Angel's Dance tries hard to be quirky and different. However, when you strip away the surface veneer, what you have is a darkly humorous reinvention of The Empire Strikes Back and The Karate Kid. The story's protagonists are Steve Rosellini (James Belushi), a Yoda-like assassin, and his pupil Tony (Kyle Chandler), who has been sent to ''The Rose'' by mafia don Uncle Vinnie to be trained for an important ''assignment''. In true Mr. Mayagi-like fashion, Rosellini tries to get the impatient and angry young Tony to study Nietzche and warns him that, ''nothing is as it seems.'' Then, just in case we hadn't figured it out, The Rose tells Tony, ''I will teach you. It's a Zen master thing.'' Attempts to make The Rose a more appetizing character – he's a vegetarian, he recycles and believes in reincarnation, so he's not REALLY killing people, only sending them to another plane of existence – may make him a more interesting character, but they don't make him particularly believable. The last time I checked, Zen Buddhists were as opposed to murder as Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus. more...
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www.movie-vault.com - : After Tony (Kyle Chandler) takes a bullet for one of his friends, this friend talks to his boss (his Uncle or something) and tells him Tony is good, and he could be their new hitman -they lost the last one-. The boss says he needs training, so he commands Tony to go to Stevie 'The Rose' Rosellini (Belushi), a professional in the business. He has pretty weird techniques for training newbies, and he quickly makes Tony realize he isn't all that good as he thought. more...
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